Jeffrey: 3395 books
Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith
The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in Fear and Trembling
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling is one of the most widely read works of Continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight and attention to...
by Jeffrey G. Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Fourth in the Kennel Club Books’ Classics series, The Golden Retriever recognizes the ever-popular all-American breed in this one spectacular volume. Written by author, breeder, and judge, Jeffrey G. Pepper, this book’s engaging chapters on everything from the breed’s accomplishments in performance...
The Fight of Your Life
Why Your Teen Is at Risk and What Only You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Christian parents today feel replaced as the primary influence in their teen’s lives--undermined at school, invaded by the web, and in the dark about what’s really going on. Truth is, says teen expert Jeffrey Dean, parents don’t know the half of it!
In The Fight of Your Life, Dean offers...
The Political Economy of Integration
The Experience of Mercosur
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
This book assesses South America’s most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur. It explains the main—and inherent—weaknesses of the integration effort, through explicit comparison with the European experience with integration. Jeffrey Cason argues that the three main reasons for...
Lights On
The Non-Technical Guide to Battery Power when the Grid Goes Down
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Following the simple plans in Lights On will ensure that you are safe and secure during widespread long-term power outages.
The US electric grid is at greater risk today than ever before. From aging infrastructure, severe weather, and EPA mandated closure of coal-fired power plants to solar...
Media, Religion and Culture
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Religion has always been shaped by the media of its time, and today we live in a media culture that informs much of what we think and how we behave. Religious believers, communities and institutions use media as tools to communicate, but also as locations where they construct and express identity,...
by Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, Jimmy Casas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Todd Whitaker, Jeffrey Zoul, and Jimmy Casas are widely acclaimed experts on teaching and leading and are pioneers in the education twitterverse, and now they are sharing their best practices! In What Connected Educators Do Differently, they show how being a connected educator—by using social media...
Sexual Discretion
Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as “down-low” or “DL” men, many continue to have relationships with girlfriends and wives who remain...
Changed in a Flash
One Woman's Near-Death Experience and Why a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
A fascinating first-hand account of an awakening into a psychic consciousness, paired with a revolutionary analysis by a respected professor of religion
When Elizabeth Greenfield Krohn got out of her car with her two young sons in the parking lot of her synagogue on a late afternoon in September...
Esalen
America and the Religion of No Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human potential movement. Forged in the literary and mythical leanings of the Beat Generation, inspired in...
The Disciple's Prayer
The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Christians around the world recite the “Lord’s Prayer” daily, but what exactly are they praying for—and what relationship does it have with Jesus’ own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lord’s Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and refutes it. The...
by Jeffrey Rotter
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A darkly comic, wildly original novel of a family in flight from the law, set in a near-future American dystopia.
In an America of the semi-distant future, human knowledge has reverted to a pre-Copernican state. Science and religion are diminished to fairy tales, and Earth once again occupies...
Solidarity Under Siege
The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970–1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
El Salvador's long civil war had its origins in the state repression against one of the most militant labor movements in Latin American history. Solidarity under Siege vividly documents the port workers and shrimp fishermen who struggled yet prospered under extremely adverse conditions during the...
The Last Battle of the Civil War
Palmetto Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
More than two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, the New York Times reported a most surprising piece of news. On May 12-13, the last battle of the Civil War had been fought at the southernmost tip of Texas—resulting in a Confederate victory. Although...